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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

"We are f*cked"

The DUmmies have given up all hope...and change as you can see by the very title of their THREAD, "We are f*cked." All because of the tax cut compromise proposed by Obama yesterday. What is really interesting about Obama's willingness to extend the Bush tax cuts is that is an admission by his administration that those tax cuts were effective in the first place and are important for the economy. When those tax cuts were first proposed nearly 10 years ago, the Democrats scoffed at them as being insignificant in helping the middle class. However, Obama is now admitting that they are so important for the middle class that he is now willing to extend them for the RIIIIIIIICCCCHHHHHHH. All this has sent the Democrats and the DUmmies into a state of deep funk. So let us now watch the DUmmies agonize over the Obama tax cuts cave in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that this will now become a BIG issue for the 2012 election, is in the [barackets]:

We are f*cked.

[If you say so.]

We are all supply siders now. We have set a precedent that cannot be undone.

[Good news. ObamaCare CAN be undone simply by withholding funding in Congress.]

We support taxcuts to get our economy going over whatever other processes available.

[Processes like forced collectivization.]

We support unlimited war and indefensible defense budgets.

[Like the unlimited war on poverty going on for over 40 years?]

We support massive deficits if it helps the wealthy.

[So that was the reason for ObamaCare.]

We support cuts in social programs if it helps the wealthy.

[Cut midnight basketball programs to help maintain the trust fund of William Rivers Pitt.]

Do not deceive yourself. There is no one looking out for you.

[John Kerry has your back.]

We are screwed.

[Ben Burch will do the honors and now on to the other DUmmies...]

it's depressing, so much for hope

[...And change. That's down the tubes too.]

Or change.

[I swear I didn't read that when I wrote my previous comment but, yeah, change is gone too. Thrown under the bus with hope.]

This is what happens when the Wall Street money people own both Parties.

[Timothy Geithner has your back.]

I am so incredibly sad.

[Boo hoo! You want a hankie?]

We are chaining ourselves to anvils and jumping overboard because we have decided everyone is entitled to their own version of reality and we can't agree that a temperature graph going up means the temperature is going up.

[In the DUmmie reality up is not the opposite of down but is three miles east of Philadelphia.]

NO no no no...I do have hope! and you won't take it away from me. how bad it was during the depression...then we got the New Deal! I will not give in to hopelessness....

[Don't give up hope. In 2013 President Christie will have a new deal.]

we can reverse it if we refuse to lie down and take it.

[No need to lie down. Just bend over and take it.]

Totally deflated. and angry

[You want Mr. Rogers to sing you a happy song?]

this is nonsense the whole thing

[t's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor,Would you be mine?Could you be mine?]

I think what happened on December 12, 2000 was the death sentence for America. What happened the following year on September 11 was just the funeral pyre to commemorate it. How the hell do you recover from eight fascist years of the Bush/Cheney Imperial pResidency?!

[It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,A neighborly day for a beauty,Would you be mine?Could you be mine?]

My gut told me in 1980 and again in 2000 that we were missing major jump points. There may not be another in time.

[I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.]

F*ck it. Guess I'll get high and listen to Pink Floyd while I still have food and electricity.

[So let's make the most of this beautiful day,Since we're together, we might as well say,Would you be mine?Could you be mine?Won't you be my neighbor?]

Exactly, this is a country run by and for millionaires and billionaires. We, the rest of the country get constantly thrown under the curb. Shit, I'm suprised these assholes haven't tried to bring back 1790's era politics where their class was the only one allowed to vote. It's pretty clear we don't matter.

The hysterical DUmmies are ignoring the recent elections, the Democrats were badly beaten in federal and state elections---Obama's(and his DUmmie supporters) politics have been decisively rejected. Obama has to deal with that reality, the DUmmies don't--they'll continue to live in la-la land

So what's the Democrat Left going to do? Will the lame duck Congress kill the deal so everyone's taxes will go up on January 1, 2011?

Something's gotta give, I think it will be the Dem left; either way, look for more internal strife in Donkeyland. Watch for Keith Olbermann's head exploding in rage.

It must be a barren and sad little world they inhabit. To be so eager to condem everyone else for insufficient purity of thought. Bet the constant dreariness of the grey color of the concrete in mom's cellar must really drain a persons soul after the first decade or so.

And oh... is troggy usually this much an insufferable clown?

The kind of guy who's own family avoids him even on Christmas in fear he'd rant and scream at his 90 year old grandma because she once said FDR wasn't that great.

"FDR had nothing to do with getiin America out of the Great Depression." literery laz

So his nearly 16 year presidency during and after the great depression had nothing to do with the fact that we got out of it...even though we did get out of it during Roosevelt's tenure. FDR must've done something right, you stupid douche-nozzle.

laz figures he can just say shit like this and make it true. He doesn't have a fucking clue. He just heard it from someone like Pills or Hannity or whomever and that AUTOMATICALLY makes it true.

Many economists agree that FDR did not end the Depression. Certainly unemploymeent remained high through1940. 1933 unemployment rate 23.2%,1935 21.3%, 1936 15.3%, 1937 15%,1937 15.1%, 1938 17.4%, 1940 14.6%.The unemployement rate did no fall to pre-Depression levels until 1943when 10 million men were out of the work force and in the military.

"The unemployement rate did no fall to pre-Depression levels until 1943when 10 million men were out of the work force and in the military." elrond

What precluded this especially disastrous era? What caused it?

What you don't address is the fact that we DID come out of it and FDR was the president at the time. That fact is indisputable. We came out of the depression and FDR was president at the time. The decisions he rendered made a difference. Indisputable.

Therefore you're a reindeer dumbass. Probably the one Palin tried to shoot the other night.

Unemployment never fell below 12% during the 30s; bad policies (NRA, AAA), high taxes, high tariffs and anti-business rhetoric stalled recovery. In fact, in 1937-38 the American economy experienced a new depression within the Great Depression, by May 1938 the unemployment rate was up to 20%.

Mass unemployment disappeared during WWII due to the drafting of 12 million people into the military. Industrial production did increase during the war years but it did not improve economic conditions in the country since all the new activity was directed at war production, not consumer desired goods and services.

The American economy did not recover from the effects of the Depression until 1948,three years after FDR's death. The Stock Market did not attain pre-crash levels until 1953, eight years after FDR's death.

You said that FDR was president at the time that we came out of the depression and that "The decisions he rendered made a difference. Indisputable." By your very same standard, you believe that Hitler got us out of the depression. That is YOUR standard of causation. Of course, you are a moron that doesn't understand causation.

"The American economy did not recover from the effects of the Depression until 1948,three years after FDR's death. The Stock Market did not attain pre-crash levels until 1953, eight years after FDR's death. BTW, Hoover's policies were as misguided as FDR's." elrond

So since things stabilized 3 years after FDR's death, that means he had nothing to do with the recovery. Sure. And Hoover was misguided?

I don't understand what you're trying to say, elrond. You admit things stabilized 3 years after FDR's death (wasn't that Truman's administration?) and that Hoover was misguided. Are we arguing about something?

1) The NRA imposed industrial cartels over virtually every sector of the American economy.

2) At the same time, the AAA controlled the price and production of American farming.

3) The monetary system was thrown into confusion and instability with the abandonment of the gold standard.

4) Taxes were raised.As a result many individuals and businesses simply reduced or halted production, especially as the New Deal wore on.

5)Budget deficits increased.

6) Giant public works projects were directly undertaken by the fedral government, increasing deficits while not helping unemployment.

7) FDR enacted a minimum wage law, strengthened union power and compulsory collective bargaining. It was good for the unions but bad for non-union workers: high paying jobs for the few and unemployment of everyone else. Remember, unemployment never dipped below 12%during the 30s. In 1938 (in the fifth year of the New Deal) it reached 20%.

8) FDR went on an anti-business crusade in 1936-7 that further weakened business confidence in the politcal and economic future.

These programs generated uncertainty in the private sector and addded to economic stagnation. Many businesses would not hire because they were not certain that risks to their property were few and managable.

Actually the burden of proof is on you. You're using post hoc logic. The Depression eventually ended, therefore the New DEal ended it. The facts, however, don't bear you out. Yes, the Depression eventually ended but its demise was delayed by New Deal policies that delayed its end while exacerbating its effects.

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